Never Too Late For A Good Graduation

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Here are the, almost forgotten, photos of what I looked like at my graduation in june. I am totally behind my schedule for posting these now. But when it comes to good pictures, that you have really put yourself into, I believe it's never too late. These photos are taken by my dear sister, and styled and edited by me. 
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These exact pictures were taken about a week after the actual day, but my graduation was the most magical day. Maybe except for the few moments when it unfortunately rained a lot, but even so the experience was something I've never been through before. The whole day was scheduled and planned out for you. I probably got up around 5 am and went to bed at 2 pm. You would think that all those hours would give you some kind of rest between the events, but that was unfortunately not the case. I have never in my entire life been activated, physically, socially and mentally, as many hours as I was during that particular day. So, obviously, I was beyond tired when heading home that night, but I had had a great day that's for certain. A memorable day. 
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The dress I bought from Asos.com, and the rainbow shoes are from Envishoes.com
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Like the cherry on top

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Jonas took these photos of me a few weeks ago and right after that I was supposed to post them, so  you could get a better hint of what my new shoes looked like. But since it has been so much going on the last few weeks before graduation and stuff, I haven't had the time. Now when things, like prom for example, have past I finally get o show these to you. As you probably can see I have used my circular flash in this photo session and I think it went perfectly with the feeling I was looking for. The contrast between my skin, dress and sunglasses came out really good and clear when editing, just as I had hoped. And I am so happy about the feeling my shoes are bringing to the pictures, they're like the cherry on top. 
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However, the black velvet dress I found at the Red Cross a while ago and it has these cute flowers on it, but unfortunately they are really hard to spot here (at all..). Sunglasses are Cheap Monday and my shoes are Jeffrey Campbell from Envi Shoes and I actually bought them particulary for my graduation day, but I sort of couldn't wait until then.   
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the movement of a midsummer sunset

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Our wheather up here in the north of Sweden has been crazy hot the last few weeks, which we're certainly not used to here. Not this early anyway. All of the trees and the flowers has therefore flourished much earlier than normal and right now it feels a lot like midsummer in Sweden. Which was our exact thought behind these photos, when we shot them at sunset the other week. That day we also hade one of our well-planned theme nights. This time it was a mix of romance and everything that comes with it and the feeling of the Romantic movement, which we tried to convey in these pictures. I think we did pretty well. 
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I'm wearing a bustier from Urban Outfitters, a new skirt from the Red Cross (which makes me think of candy cans) and my new favorite rainbow shoes from Envi Shoes, Jeffery Campbell.  
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ABBA during the 70's

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My parents and I often take walks through the golf course that lies near by our house. Mostly beacause it has great walking paths that altogether gives you a length of 3 miles, which normally is what we're looking for. But also because of the amazing sourroundings. With the meadows and different sizes of hills all colored with bright green and at night when the sun is on its way down it is a pretty magical sight i can assure you. It actually feels a lot like a scene picked out from Sound of music
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However, I have been craving to take photos there and so Jonas and I did a while ago, when the green grass had just started showing. I chose to wear a top I have sewed myself and my new pink 70's pants, which according to my 12-year-old brother makes me look like one of the ABBA artists. I found them at second hand, and even though I am not completely comfortable wearing them yet, since it is not the most common garment in my closet at all, I really like them. 
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a mixed tape for the lady in pink

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Here is the rest of the photos I showed you in a post about a week ago, you know the one with my most recent investments. Well anyways, here they are in their true colors. 
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The egg-shaped sunglasses I recently bought at the Red Cross, has a touch of the 50's don't you think? Goes perfectly with my 50's bathing suit.
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The tape recorder I bought this autumn at a second hand store in Gothenburg. The only thing missing right now is a few nostalgic tapes to mix it with. I had a lot of them when I was younger, which I guess  are up somewhere in the attic but only God knows where. 
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This mini-light strand is one of my new investements which is not placed in my wardrobe. It didn't look like this when I bought it, I was inspired by Underbaraclara, so I also bought these crazy-pretty paper mugs and put them on the light strand. 
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the sleeveless turtleneck I actually sewed a few weeks ago, and I absolutely love it. Real simple to do too and a really simple-looking garment, perfectly matched to a colored or patterned skirt. 
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Both of the skirts I found at the Red Cross recently. The pale one might look like it's white, but it's actually a pastel-kind-of-yellow. Perfect for the easter-weekend coming up. The striped skirt in red and white is truly comfortable and I actually think it looks like a skirt directly taken out of the swedish children's movie called "Emil i Lönneberga" by the famous author Astrid Lindgren. That was one of my favorite movies as a child, so it makes me a proud owner of this special skirt. 
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Lastly I wanted to show you my crazy-pink coat I bought about a month ago, also at the Red Cross. There is not a lot of garments you fall in love with, but this one was a truly love-at-first-sight-moment-garment and I don't say that a lot so this is very rare. I love the elegant feeling and the cut of it.
I haven't found the perfect day to wear it yet though, but now with the spring slowly starting to appear it will be much easier. 
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And now I am in Tenerife, finally. We arrived a few days ago and everything is amazing here! There will be updates later on.
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investments doesn't necessarily rime with expensive


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These three black and white photos are just a preview of the most recent investments in my closet. Except for the denim skirt in the last one and the striped Jeffery Campbell platforms in the middle one, those you've seen before. I will show you more about these garments later, but for now this is all you get. Think you could guess which color each of them are?  
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Just a heads up; as you propably saw in the other post my hair has unfortunately lost its violet color and gone back to being blonde. So I went to my marvelous hairdresser to do something about it and so I am now silver colored. It doesn't show in these photos very well, but it will be much clearer in the next post. 
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By the way, I don't think I have told you this but next week I am leaving this cold wheather in Sweden and going to Tenerife with one of my dearest friends Sofie for a week. I am over my head high excited. Just thought you should know.
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propellerkeps på sin rätta plats

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I am caught up skirts and turtlenecks right now. You know the feeling you get when walking into a store and you don't actually know what you're looking for, but seem to be drawn to something. Turtlenecks and skirts are that for me in the present. I have felt that feeling a lot lately, which has resulted in me buying a bunch of skirts and turtlenecks the past weeks. Lucky for my pocketbook all of these garments are found at second hand stores and I have also sewed some turtlenecks lately which is very economic way of getting a new wardrobe.  
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How do you like my cap? Another colorful and good-looking accessory belonging to my dear boyfriend Jonas. It is a cap by Ben & Jerry's, you know the ice cream company, which my sister got for him in San Fransisco last summer. It is supposed to have a propeller on the top but Jonas removed it after a while since it wasn't that practical. 
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Ben & Jerry's cap -  Jonas', from San Fransisco Turtleneck - H&M Flowery skirt - The Red Cross Shoes - Creepers from Underground
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a pastel look in violet

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Okay so, as you have probably noticed my hair has been craving for me to do something about it, with my dark roots and all. Now finally, I have and I absolutely love it. This kind of pastel look is something I have wanted for quite a while now. pastel violet with a hint of silver and pink turned out really good, don't you think?
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and this cute blouse with lace I recently bought at the Red Cross, not a typical garment for me but why don't try something new huh? 
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rosy and glittery parts of the 80's and 90's

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So last week I mixed it up a little and tried the most curious accessory; the cap. Unfortunately it's not mine, it belongs to my boyfriend Jonas which almost makes it mine (almost). It is from the 80's which makes it even cooler. And the glitter top I bought a few weeks ago at the Red Cross and is one of my favorite garments right now. And I recently found a pink glitter top as well, it is just something about the sparkling-thing that I am drawn to and it also reminds me of the good parts of the 90's.
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the suit pants and the glitter top are second hand, the pink cap is Jonas and the shoes are Jeffrey Campbell.
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a fairy tale in the aumbry

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These pictures my sister Julia and I shot when I was visiting her in Gothenburg this autumn. It is in her beautiful apartment, in her cute little aumbry. 
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I am wearing a pair of denim jeans in purple, that I found on the second hand store Myrorna in Gothenburg and the yellow dotted top is also something I found at one of all the great second hand stores in Gothenburg. I have a hard time remembering its name though, but I know it is next to the really cool store Grandpa. 
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Circular flash suits the tie-dye globe

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Okay so now I am back from all of the holiday stuff, celebrating christmas, waiting for the new year to arrive. 2013 is here now, can you believe it? I am really excited, especially since I am graduating this term. 
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For Christmas I got a lot of great things, which I can show you more of later on, but one those things was this really crazy wonderful "globe-lamp" from Jonas. Since I have been looking for one for so long, I got over my head when he gave it to me. It has its own special place and gives my room a cozy soft-blue-kind-of-light-feeling (even if doesn't appear in the picture).
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Both my Christmas and New Year was great which I celebrated with my family and Jonas in our cabin up in the moutains. We had the most wonderful time up there and went skiing on Christmas Eve as well as the other days. And of course we also did other typical swedish traditions we have in our family as any other family, but the skiing part has become our most recent tradition and I truly love it. Going skiing in the middle of the day and then come back home and prepare the Christmas dinner and evening plans. 
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During the holiday I have finally had the time to spend some time with my sewing machine again. So before the holidays I bought a few fabrics and made two really simple, but perfect tops to wear whenever and this pink tie-dye top is one of those.
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Also Jonas gave me this antique leather suitcase which I have fallen in love with, it has these really cool colorful stickers inside from different places in the world, where I guess the last owner has been to. 
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The pink tie-dye top is homemade and the cool spot-printed glasses used to belong to my grandmother I think.
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I love a lot about christmas. One of the amazing things is when you finally get to see your family's faces when they open the presents you have planned and prepared for them. It is great. Of course I got some pretty amazing things myself and one of those things was a ring flash from my parents. It is a circular photography flash that you put on your lens and depending on which kind of lens you use, you can get really amazing results.  Like in these pictures, where I used the ring flash together with my fish eye lens. Pretty cool, huh? 
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Christmas and New Year's Eve, just around the corner

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I guess I owe you an apology for my terrible distans lately. I don't think I have to explain that Christmas is a crammed and stressful time of the year. It's a lot of preparations going on - planning all the christmas presents, making a lot of candy and pastries - and on top of that some last school assignments.
It has been a lot until now, but it is starting to blow over.
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However, I have recently received the most beautiful dress, as you can see in the photos, from the brittish clothing company Dahlia. It suits me very well and I believe it will be perfect for New Year's Eve. Sparkly and shiny in a nice way, don't you think? 
I am not sure what to wear for Christmas Eve though. Maybe I will sew me something, that is so much more fun than buying a super-expensive outfit, which often not even is what you were looking for anyway.
A skirt or a top in burgundy would be nice. Let's see shall we. 
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I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well at this stressful time, and that you will have a wonderful Christmas and New Year's Eve with your friends and family. 
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Fifi Dress - Dahlia 
 
Striped shoes - Jeffery Campbell
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Merry Christmas

Big Ben in a freakishly yellow point of view.

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When we were i London, Amanda and I, we almost forgot to visit the most well-known tourist attraction there. Big Ben and London Eye. We had almost our whole week planned out with different places we wanted to visit and things we wanted to do, but we totally forgot about Big Ben. Only one day before we were going home we realized that and of course included it to our timetable. 
It was beautiful there, like all places in London. 
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This day I wore a Simpsons top. Which used to belong to my brother, before I got hold of it and cut it in half. He had outgrown it, so I tried it on and it fitted me in that perfect way I'm looking for. And besides, it has an incredibly beautiful print don't you think? 
I matched it with my new turquoise-striped socks, freakishly yellow cut offs and a bottle of coke with a straw. 
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Since Harrods was closed when we got there the first time, we went there in the day instead for Breakfast. We drank two lovely cups of tea each and an amazing scone with cream cheese and marmalade. Won't ever be able  to forget the incredible taste experience I had that day. 
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Top - unknown. Cut offs - the Red Cross. Striped socks - Topshop. Creepers - Rokit. 
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Have A Look At My Kitchen Aid


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So, last week I had my autumn break and took the opportunity to go and visit my dear sister in Gothenburg. I stayed for the whole week and we had the most wonderful time, visited amazing second hand stores and picked up some real bargains as the red turtleneck and the corduroy pants (that I'm wearing in these photos). We hung out with her lovely friends and a few of our cousins and other relatives, baked bread and cookies, took long walks to the grocery store, did photoshoots in my sister's amazing apartment, as you can see, and these took place in her kitchen. Sometimes it can be so much more fun to do your photoshoots inside, if you find a spot where the light is workable. I prefer to use my fisheye when taking photos indoors, because then the light usually works better and also because almost the whole room will be included in the pictures, and if it is a cool spot the pictures will come out great. 
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Red turtleneck - second hand. Corduroy pants - second hand. Silver spotted socks - monki. Zebra Creepers - Rokit.
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As you have probably noticed by now, I have cut hair. Oh wait, correct sentence; My sister has cut my hair. I was bored with my past hair-cut so I decided to cut it right of. And I was supposed to let a hairstylist do that for me, but they didn't have the time so I let my sister do it instead. And it came out pretty great, don't you think?
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Tennisball At Midnight Whatsoever

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A couple of weeks ago I came up with this idea of having a photoshoot at night on a soccer field. So I brought my dear friend Amanda with me to the green field with white lines and photographed all night, almost anyway.. 
However, the pictures came out even better then I expected, thanks to the bright spotlights shining above us. We used my fish eye lens and it made the field look like a huge tennisball, which became a pretty cool detail I think. One really should do these kinds of photoshoots more often. In places that are different from the obvious ones, like this soccer field. It is also so much more fun to do it by night, or any other unusual time of the day, if you find a place with even one light source. 
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The flowery skirt that I'm wearing I found at the Red Cross store in Umeå and it fits absolutely perfect. The turtleneck is from H&M, the wine-colored hat I borrowed from Jonas and the striped platforms are Jeffrey Campbell. 
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colorful streets of Notting Hill need tie dye overalls

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Except from visiting Notting Hill that day, we also went to one of our favorite places, Hyde Park. The weather was marvelous and we bumbed into a lot of different, but interesting animals. Mostly squirrels and doves. The squirrls you could find all over the park, so cute and innocent. One even came up to me and touched my hand with its nose. Friendly creatures. We saw a lot of grey doves, but also one white one. It was the most beautiful thing. Unfortunately, hard to get a photo of it when it kept moving around. So I took a mental picture instead. So you'll just have to visualize it. 
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tie dye overalls - a second hand somewhere at Camden Market. Shoes - Dr. Martens. Transparent body top - monki.
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thus an orange turtleneck and leafs of autumn

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The other day I put on my new favorite turtleneck, which I accidently found at The Red Cross about a week ago, and Amanda and I went to a beautiful park in our city, where autumn turned out to be hidden. As you can see for yourself in the pictures, there was to be found the most wonderful colorful trees and the ground was covered with leafs in different shades of autumn. 
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the orange turtleneck is the Red Cross, the lace skirt is from Topshop, the orange lipstick is Mac and the Zebra Creepers. 
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As you probably know by now, if you have been reading my blog for a while, I am not a skirt-kind-of-person. These last couple of days, though, I've become the opposite. Especially the combination of a skirt in a longer length, a belt and a turtle neck. So you will probably see more of that in the future. 
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By the way, I am well aware of the fact that I need to dye my hair roots, I guess I will do something about it soon. Who knows? 
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However, the Fashion Week of Umeå is over, but altough it is sad a wonderful week is coming up. My dearly missed sister is coming home tomorrow. She is staying for for the week during her birthday and then I am going back with her to Gothenburg during the Autumn holiday.
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Compliments in the rougher part of London

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If you ever go to London, you truly need to visit Covent Garden and Brick Lane. It was two of those wonderful places that I fell in love with during my stay there. Covent Garden has the most perfect dinner restaurants, the food is absolutely amazing. The third day we managed to visit four different places. Camden Market, Brick Lane,  Covent Garden och Earl's Court. They are all great places, but I especially recommend Brick Lane and Covent Garden. Camden Market is, obviously, a market full of different things; chinese food (as you can see pictured above) and a lot of clothing stores with really intersesting and rather usual stuff. Brick Lane is a really cool place, the bit rougher part of London, but yet so cosy and they have huge and amazing second hand stores, one of them is the great store Blitz. You should check it out! 
Earl's Court and Covent Garden I have told you about before, in earlier posts, but we had our hotel in Earl's Court and Covent Garden was this magic place with restaurants and troubadours. 
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it was a great day and we met a lot of interesting and nice people. Basically everyone who lives in London is nice, truly. Two unexpected but nice guys, as you can see on the picture above, stopped because they wanted to be in a picture. Another nice person that we met on Oxford Street on a different day suddenly came up to us and said tht he just had to stop and tell us what nice outfits we had on, he just had to stop and say that. Amazing isn't it? We, Swedes, should really learn from them. To give compliments to one and one other. 
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all of the clothes that I am wearing in these pictures are new. except from the backpack. The knitted black sweater is from Topshop and so is the amazing lace skirt and the blue Dr Martens. 
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the floral cut offs couldn't bare it

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the second day, of our week in London, we did a lot of different things. The subway in London is just amazing, even though it is a huge city, it only takes a few minutes to go from one place to another. we were pretty amazed by this so we travelled a lot between places. This made us believe that one day was three whole days, since we had experinced so many different things in one day. It was pretty much the feeling we had the whole week. 
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That day we, among many other things, went to Oxford Street for round number one of shopping. It was crazy fun, I can asure you. I have never in my life, so far, witnessed as many crazy-good-looking clothes at one place. 
another, rather unexpected but fun, experience that day was a woman who suddenly stopped me to ask if she could take a street style picture of me. I said she could, so all of the sudden I was standing in the middle of Oxford Street in London, posing for a complete stranger. It was the first time that week, but not the last, it happened twice after that, in only one week. But I will tell you more about those times later. 
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by the way, the bulidings in the backround pictured above we you can almost spot our hotel, it is only a few metres from where I'm standing. A beautiful neighborhood. 
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hope you have had a great weekend and a good start of a new week, I have and I hope it will stay that way. God evening. 
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Hyde Park, come again?

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so here we are at one of the most beautiful places of London, Hyde Park. It is this huge garden with cute benches and tall fluffy trees where you can sit and read books as if nothing else mattered. It is pretty amazing if you live in a big city that you can escape from all the noise and stress in town and instead be surrounded by peace and quiet.
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However, this was the first time we went to Hyde Park that week. It was mainly because we were supposed to remake a scene from gossip girl, hence the dress. It is our senior year project, me and Amanda's, we are remaking movie scenes and will later on analys and do research about how music affects our lives. As you probably know, music is very important when it comes to movies, if you ask me, it is often the reason why you feel the way you feel in the particulary scene. Sad, happy, excited, yeah you know. And we will try to find out which differences there are between a scene with and without music. 
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by the way, the exciting dress is from asos.com
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